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Top Forums UNIX for Advanced & Expert Users Test -e not working as expected (by me) Post 302938028 by bakunin on Wednesday 11th of March 2015 11:55:00 AM
Old 03-11-2015
Quote:
Originally Posted by rbatte1
Consider testing for a link instead:-
Code:
$ if [ -L b ]

See my first post above, i know that. The question is: why does "-e" work like it does and: is the POSIX documentation buggy there? According to the definition of "file" it should work like this:

if "file" exists and:
- is a regular file, "-f" will return TRUE
- is a block special file "-b" will return TRUE
- is a directory "-d" will return TRUE
...etc. analogously for "-c", "-h", "L", "-p", ...

and "-e" should return TRUE if any one of the above return TRUE.

bakunin
 

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variant_xor

VARIANT_XOR(3)								 1							    VARIANT_XOR(3)

variant_xor - Performs a logical exclusion on two variants

SYNOPSIS

       mixed variant_xor (mixed  $left, mixed  $right)

DESCRIPTION

	Performs a logical exclusion.

PARAMETERS

	      o $left
		- The left operand.

	      o $right
		- The right operand.

       Note

	       As  with  all  the variant arithmetic functions, the parameters for this function can be either a PHP native type (integer, string,
	      floating point, boolean or NULL), or an instance of a COM, VARIANT or DOTNET class. PHP native types will be converted  to  variants
	      using  the  same	rules  as  found  in  the constructor for the "VARIANT" class. COM and DOTNET objects will have the value of their
	      default property taken and used as the variant value.

	       The variant arithmetic functions are wrappers around the similarly named functions in the COM  library;	for  more  information	on
	      these  functions, consult the MSDN library. The PHP functions are named slightly differently; for example variant_add(3) in PHP cor-
	      responds to VarAdd()  in the MSDN documentation.

RETURN VALUES

       Variant XOR Rules

       +------------+--------------------+---+
       |If $left is |			 |   |
       |	    |			 |   |
       |	    |	 If $right is	 |   |
       |	    |			 |   |
       |	    | then the result is |   |
       |	    |			 |   |
       +------------+--------------------+---+
       |	    |			 |   |
       |   TRUE     |			 |   |
       |	    |			 |   |
       |	    |			 |   |
       |	    |	     TRUE	 |   |
       |	    |			 |   |
       |	    |			 |   |
       |	    |	    FALSE	 |   |
       |	    |			 |   |
       |	    |			 |   |
       |   TRUE     |			 |   |
       |	    |			 |   |
       |	    |			 |   |
       |	    |	    FALSE	 |   |
       |	    |			 |   |
       |	    |			 |   |
       |	    |	     TRUE	 |   |
       |	    |			 |   |
       |	    |			 |   |
       |   FALSE    |			 |   |
       |	    |			 |   |
       |	    |			 |   |
       |	    |	     TRUE	 |   |
       |	    |			 |   |
       |	    |			 |   |
       |	    |	     TRUE	 |   |
       |	    |			 |   |
       |	    |			 |   |
       |   FALSE    |			 |   |
       |	    |			 |   |
       |	    |			 |   |
       |	    |	    FALSE	 |   |
       |	    |			 |   |
       |	    |			 |   |
       |	    |	    FALSE	 |   |
       |	    |			 |   |
       |	    |			 |   |
       |   NULL     |			 |   |
       |	    |			 |   |
       |	    |			 |   |
       |	    |	     NULL	 |   |
       |	    |			 |   |
       |	    |			 |   |
       |	    |	     NULL	 |   |
       |	    |			 |   |
       +------------+--------------------+---+
SEE ALSO

       variant_or(3), variant_and(3).

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